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Chapter 1 ✦ Installing SUSE 10
If you want to create multiple partitions during the installation process, you can do
this by making sure that the root partition does not completely fill your disk and
then creating additional partitions in the remaining space on your disk. Common
parts of a Linux system that you may want to put on separate data partitions are
/boot, /home, /opt, /tmp, /var, /usr, and /usr/local. For more information on
these partitions and the types of information stored there, see Chapter 3.
Selecting Software for Installation
The software that is automatically selected as part of a default SUSE installation
provides you with nearly every type of software required for day-to-day work. This
section offers additional details about the other types of installations provided by
the SUSE installer to provide a full and thorough SUSE learning experience.
To customize the software that is included as part of your SUSE installation, you must
click the Software heading in YaST’s Installation Settings panel, or click Change and
select Software from the pop-up menu. Doing either of these displays the pane shown
in Figure 1-15.
Figure 1-15: Using the YaST package manager
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